Francis GALIEGUE wrote:

> 
> > > What's your chipset and CPU? What amount of RAM?
> >
> > AMD K6-2 450 MHz, 128 MB RAM, VIA chipset...
> >
> 
> VIA again! Mamma mia!
> 
> > > Have you compiled in APM support? If yes, does the kernel boot if you
> > > remove it?
> >
> > Funny, that was never a problem before, but I'll try it out...
> >
> > Greets and btw. thanks for the fast response
> 
> np :) But I'd really like to sort out that VIA chipset stuff. All the
> people I know who have such a chipset on their motherboard have had
> problems (from massive disk corruption to "kernel wont boot"-style
> problems).
> 
> Re: APM, and related (again!) to VIA, I know a guy with a K6-2 CPU  and
> a VIA chipset as well who has had disk corruption problems, but on power

well, maybe was due to UDMA vanderbilt patch (at least it works
fine on ALI15XX...fingercrossing)

> off the kernel would just oops...
> 
> Ban VIA!

Well, there aren't many chipset for K6...one is ALI and the other is VIA...

Bye.
Giuseppe.

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